Godspell - A Musical on this coming Saturday night !
Hi guys,
Here is a broadway musical event, GODSPELL, presented in Centennial Theatre on this coming Friday and Saturday night. The show starts at 8 pm. Stew German highly recommends it and he can't get enough of it. Therefore, he invites all of us to watch this broadway show with him on this Saturday night. If you would like to know more information about the event, you can check this link http://www.centennialtheatre.com/events.html .
If you need to get a ticket, just email or phone me as soon as possible. The show on Saturday night is the last one.
And thank to lovely Stew for providing the information.
Have a nice weekend and hope to see you all there !
posted by Joanna Chan @ 5:30 PM
8 comments
8 Comments:
Sounds grand. Snag me a ticket, will you please?
How was the play?
Not half bad. Imagine the life and parables of Jesus retold in jaunty good humour, with touches of rock and roll, vaudeville, cabaret and gospel music of the rollicking sort, and you have an idea of what happened on stage that night. The actor who played Jesus switched from comedy to gravity and back again, often quite sharply but never jarringly. Another actor could easily have looked like a clod carrying on as hilariously and as sternly as the role demanded, but this fellow pulled the trick off seamlessly. As for the story and what we might call its "message", the details of Jesus's life and his parables were retold faithfully, in the show's fashion. The overall tone of the show was funny without being flippant, and serious without being stuffy. I almost decided against going, since it was on my only day off between two crushing work weeks; now I'm glad I saw it. Remind me to look out for an album of the soundtrack.
Addendum: When I say that Jesus's life and parables were retold faithfully in this musical, I mean only just as far as it went. We don't see Jesus rise from the dead, but we do see the rest of the company singing and dancing raucously as though something wonderful had just happened, and then the curtain falls. So the show isn't scripturally correct to the letter. Still a good time, though.
lol, sounds pretty lame :)
I disagree! Sounds delightful. I'm sorry I missed it. On another biblical note, I downloaded an audiobook of the Old Testament to listen to at work. It's hysterical. Remember back in the day when you (perhaps) had those read-along audio casset/book dealies? And at the end of each page a distinct male voice came on and said "Turn to page 2?" If so, then you'll appreciate why it's funny that I swear to god (?) that same guy is reading the old testamant. And even better, when he does God's voice, they put a goofy reverb on him! I was hoping to listen to it the other day but my burner refuses to associate the file. I am currently putting this down to religious differences between my computer and the downloaded material.
lol, sounds pretty lame :)
Well, then try thinking of it as The Rocky Horror Picture Show without drag. Same exuberant spirit, anyway.
Remember back in the day when you (perhaps) had those read-along audio casset/book dealies?
Never touched 'em. But you remind me that several years ago John Cleese recorded and released his reading of C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. Lewis's classic book takes the form of a series of letters by a elder devil to a younger one, in which the former instructs the latter in the art of luring souls to damnation. The tone of the elder's writings is suave, icy, sometimes sneering and often caustic, so they make a great vehicle for Cleese's comic delivery. Or so I'm guessing, as I've never heard the recording -- and Amazon's entry for it suggests that it's out of print and only to be got from second-hand booksellers at a pretty penny. Well, you can still get the book in its original format; it's a good read, whether you read it yourself or get someone to read it to you.
Well perhaps through the miracles of the internet I can find the reading by cleese! I've been meaning to look at the screwtape letters recently because they've come up in a few different conversations. Tx for the heads up!
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